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Need for Speed: Carbon on Twitch — competition and audience

EA Black Box· Electronic Arts· 2006· PS3 · PC · Mac · X360
RacingSimulatorOpen world

Need for Speed: Carbon is an arcade-style street racing game set in an open-world city. Players compete in illegal night races across different event types, including circuits, sprints, drifting, and canyon duels on winding mountain roads, while evading police pursuits. Cars are drawn from licensed real-world models across tuner, muscle, and exotic classes, and can be heavily tuned and visually customized. A key feature is the crew system, in which players recruit AI wingmen with specialized roles to assist during races and take over rival-controlled territories.

Trailer

What is Need for Speed: Carbon about?

The player returns to Palmont City, where years earlier a major street race ended in a police ambush and they were blamed for making off with the prize money. Back in the city and hunted by a bounty hunter, the player builds a racing crew and challenges the gangs that control Palmont's neighborhoods, competing for territory while trying to learn who was really behind the setup that forced them to flee.

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0Room for youClosed off
1Live streamers0 in English
2People watching
#1Your spot at 10 viewersof 2

Should I stream Need for Speed: Carbon on Twitch?

0/100 · Closed off· 2 viewers per streamer on paper

Probably not. None of the 2 people watching Need for Speed: Carbon are watching in English — every live stream is in another language, so there is nobody here for an English broadcast to reach.

None of the 2 viewers here are watching in English — every live stream is in another language, so there is nobody for an English broadcast to reach.

Only 0 of the 2 viewers here (0%) are watching in English. 0 of the 1 live streams are in English.

Almost nobody here is available to you — either a couple of streams hold the room, or nobody is watching in English, or the category is empty, or you would be buried.

This reads the room as it is right now — how much of the English-speaking audience is reachable and where you would land — not how many followers you would gain. That depends on you.

Where to buy

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How many people stream Need for Speed: Carbon?

Right now

1 right now, to 2 viewers between them. 0 of them are streaming in English. Counted live from Twitch and refreshed every 15 minutes.

Is Need for Speed: Carbon too saturated on Twitch?

Not crowded, but not open either. Only 1 person is streaming Need for Speed: Carbon, every one of them in another language — so the room is quiet because there is nobody here for an English broadcast to reach, not because it is waiting for you.

Who you're up against

Biggest streams of 1 live right now

Is Need for Speed: Carbon any good?

Players score it 72 out of 100 from 569 ratings, and critics 71 out of 100.

71Critics2 outlets
72Players569 ratings

Streamer reviews

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Details

Released
Oct 31, 2006 · 20 years ago
Time to finish
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Playing on Steam
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Price
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Modes
Single player, Multiplayer, Split screen
Perspective
First person, Third person
Rated
ESRB E10+
Biggest stream
2 (100% of the category)
Typical stream
2 viewers (median)
Count accuracy
Exact — every live stream counted

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Updated Oct 19, 2026, 9:54 PM UTC